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The Black Sprout Podcast
by Zoya
At twenty something, Zoya definitely doesn’t know everything. In fact, sometimes it feels like she knows nothing at all, but she is sharing what she's learning along the way. With an intersectional view, she talks all things race, contemporary media, social constructs, and examining heteronormative practices. Basically she just chats, possibly gives a hot take and throws in a funny story or two...or three.
Episodes
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Digital Deliberation: Beyond Black Twitter
An audio show in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the program of Media Production at Toronto Metropolitan University. This project tempts to ask how young Black Canadians are engaging with media content that is filled with anti-Black racism or contains...
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No Cap but a Wig Cap
This week's episode aims to provide a brief history to the connection that wigs have to Black women in North America. By looking at the ways that hair impact our lives it is no wonder that Black women will spend so much money each time they get a new style. I have added links to my Instagram bio...
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Power to the P
This week's episode aims to discuss how women are often undervalued and get labeled with stereotypes that aren't consistent with logic. Sexism exists in so many aspects of life, that we often show our surprise at women's achievements. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the...
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This is Level Excellence
This is the Black History Month episode. This week we are discussing the ways that the pursuit of Black excellence has caused more harm to the Black community over the years. This episode is filled with insightful conversations surrounding Black excellence along with the real barriers that Black...
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Lovers Interlude
This week's Valentine's episode has a special guest! Sit down with me as I chat with my sister about what love means to us and how some of our experiences have formed our opinions on love. We are definitely not love doctors but we are talking about the fuzzy feelings we feel down inside towards...
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Out with the Old
This week's episode aims to explain that language is always evolving. It looks at the way that senate will draft bills as a way to criminalize transness and hides their prejudice behind coded ways of thinking. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this…
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Working the Mic
This week's episode aims to compare the differences when it comes to our expectations of female artists versus their male counterparts. Women are expected to not only deliver their craft but to deliver it in a shiny and "sexy" package. Contrary to many male performers, bobbing to the beat won't...
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Rebrands & New Year Plans
This week's episode talks about how the fear of failure is stopping people from even attempting to make goals for themselves. Self-development is in but considered how much you're willing to commit to your new goal is even more important. 2023 is a time to re-evaluate the values and habits that…
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Ain't You Gonna Smile
This week's episode aims to explain why liveability impacts our lives. With so many aspects of our lives being impacts on whether we are like or not, it's no wonder that so many people try to be liked. Whether it's a work or among friends or teachers, being liked helps your overall experience. I...
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She's the Man
This week's episode aims to criticize the use of making Black women's trauma and pain in the butt of jokes. More often than not, society is alright with ridiculing and undermining black women. This is seen in movies, rap lyrics, and even commentary regarding certain athletes. Women seem unable to...
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Sticking to the Problem
This week's episode is more of a rant than it is my usual episode. However, I aim to "air" my beef with recent "activist" groups that are disturbing the public more than government officials. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this week's episode, so…
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Pocket Change
This week's episode aims to explain what the gender wage gap is and briefly what is being done in Ontario to rectify the discrepancy. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this week's episode, so check it out if you want more information. Music by Yamyiah...
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Villainized
This week's episode aims to have us reconsider what symbols and imagery are used to characterize villains in media and how more often than not it's linked to some form of disability. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this week's episode, so check it out...
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Ariel's Black and the World Didn't End
This week's episode aims to explain why mythical creatures in movies are allowed to be Black when their central story isn't based on culture or race. Somewhere along the way people have take up arms and are trying to resist the casting of a black women to play the main role in The Little Mermaid....
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Apparently It's Flattery
This week's episode tries to explain the difference between appropriation and appreciation. For some culture is just the next trend to join and for others it's just their regular life. What happens when hair is just a style for your next music video? Or when a song you heard from someone else is...
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The Culture Club
This week's episode aims to explain what culture is and why it hold such importance in society. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this week's episode, so check it out if you want more information. Music by Yamyiah Davis
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Creating the Clean Girl
This week's episode talks about the faces that are left out of the popular "clean girl aesthetic" and why the lack of representation is a problem. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this week's episode, so check it out if you want more information. Music...
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Yours, Mine? Nope Ours
This week's episode provides a brief history on the origins of Roe v. Wade and the history of forced sterilization in Canada. Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves fair access to healthcare. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this week's episode…
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Tears in the Shade White
This week's episode aims to what white fragility is and why it can be so harmful to advocacy for the Black community. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this week's episode, so check it out if you want more information. Music by Yamyiah Davis
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Too Little Too Much
This week's episode aims to bring light to cultural assimilation in what is known as Canada. It also talks about the way that something as simple as a black hair store can create a welcoming space. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this week's episode…
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Promoting Pink
This week's episode aims to explain the harms of pink washing and how deep the legacy of colonialism goes when it comes to the queer existence. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this week's episode, so check it out if you want more information. Music by...
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Elbows Off the Table
This week's episode aims to explain what respectability politics are and how conforming to Eurocentric ideals does nothing to alleviate racist stereotypes against the Black community. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this week's episode, so check it…
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Miss. No Rocky Boat
This week's episode aims to explain what performative activism is and how it's time to move past catchy slogans and broad statements. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources used in this week's episode, so check it out if you want more information. Music by Yamyiah...
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The Tipping Point
This week's episode aims to explain where the practice of tipping originated. Like many things in North America, tipping has connections to the legacy of slavery. The goal isn't to stop tips but instead demand that employers offer a living wage and not force employees to rely on customers'...
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Hi, I'm Ignorant
This week's episode aims to explain what racial microaggressions are why they can be so harmful. This episode, think about how unconscious comments can be just as harmful as ones that are filled with negative racial intent. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources…
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Crying Over Spilt Tea
This week's episode aims to explain where the term "gossip" came from and why only women seem to be labelled as such. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources that I used in this week's episode, so check it out if you want more information. Music by Yamyiah Davis
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Slicked and Slayed
This week's episode aims to explain what Tignon Law is and how it came about. Black hair is often the topic of conversation and the policing of Black hair goes back to the beginning, Tignon Law is just one example of it. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources that I...
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This Ain't a Bunny Hop
This week's episode aims to provide a brief history on hip-hop. Many know that hip-hop emerge from the Bronx, a borough in New York City, but it's influence reaches way past the city and into an international arena. Hip-hop is a culture of resistance and should always be considered as that. Also…
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A Literal Piece of Cake
This week's episode aims to provide a brief history on the cake walk and where expressions like "takes the cake" stems from. As always, I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to the resources that I used in this week's episode, so...
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Drag or Get Dragged
This week's episode aims to provide a brief history of drag and situate the story a bit earlier than the raids of the late 60s in the United States. With new archives come new information. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) to...
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It's Just Material, Girl
This week's episode aims to discuss gender, clothes, and expression. It's Just Material, Girl, contains a special feature from the new segment "verbatim", where I bring on special guests. The long version will be available on Youtube. Sam (they/them) is a queer Afro-Indigenous entrepreneur from...
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Land and Hands
This week's episode talks about multiculturalism in Canada and how it plays a part in Canada's national story, or lack thereof. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) that I used in this weeks episode, so check it out if you want more information. Music by Yamyiah Davis
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Tremble and Shake
This week's episode provides a brief history on the origins of Quakers and a brief explanation of their part in the abolition of slavery in North America. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) that I used in this weeks episode, so check it out if you want more information. Music by...
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Death to the Girlboss
This week's episode provides a brief history on the origins of feminism and how self-serving it was in the beginning. With the 2010s phenomenon of the "Girlboss", is interesting to connect how feminism and capitalism have worked together to perpetuate the same old capitalist system. Now it's just...
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Lady Lover
This week's episode aims to talk about feminist organizing that was happening during the 80s in Toronto and how Sister Vision Press supported Black queer women and other women of colour. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) that I used in this weeks episode, so check it out if you...
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COPAGANDA
This week's episode aims to provide a brief history on the origins of the modern day police force in the Global North. It also explains how state enforcement has always be used to "police" Black folks and other marginalized groups. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) that I used…
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The Blame Game
This week's episode aims to explain and expand on the topic gaslighting and how it's not just an internet word. In this episode I also mention a past injury, I don't go into too much graphic detail but I wanted to provided a heads up. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) that I…
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CODE: Dressed
This week's episode aims to how dress codes have been used to discriminate against marginalized groups and they do more harm then good. Why would we want to continue a practice that separates people based on their economic states amongst other things, As always, I have added links to my Instagram...
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Birds of a Feather
This week's episode aims to talk about rape culture and why it's so harmful to everyone. Under the patriarchy, blaming victims have become normalized instead of helping. Instead of looking at all the ways you're "not the same", we need to find ways to make the most vulnerable of us safe. I have...
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Hey Tia, Got Milk?
This week's episode talks about the history of the bra and how we ended up at the contraption we have today. People all over have their own reasons for wear...or not wearing a bra and it is always good to examine why we participate in an action. Leave heteronormative ideals behind and embrace…
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Building Barbie
This week's episode talks about the phenomenon that is Barbie and how much of an influence that unrealistic body standards are having on us. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) that I used in this weeks episode, so check it out if you want more information.
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Smash? I'll Pass
This week's episode talks about why "Smash or Pass" videos have a lot of issues with it fundamentally. Seems harmless at first glance, but promoting prejudice of any kind under the guise of "preference" is messed up. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) that I used in this weeks...
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That's What He Said
This week's episode is about gendered language and how that can often shape, even subconsciously, our opinions and thoughts. Whether this comes from past medical diagnosis or even movie interpretation, language is important. I have added some links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) sites and...
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Miss. Who? Misogyny
This week's episode talks about misogyny and why it can be so harmful. It touches on the topic of incels, the "nice guys" and potential electric malfunctions (hehe). I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) of sites and information that I used in this weeks episode, so check it out if...
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I am, who I am...and some
Hey! This week's episode aims to explain what intersectionality is and how the theory can be applied in practical ways. Don't mind me stumble through my thoughts but hopefully you find something good in the end. I have added links to my Instagram bio (@blcksprout) that I used in this weeks…
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Welcome to the Garden
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
At twenty something, Zoya definitely doesn’t know everything. In fact, sometimes it feels like she knows nothing at all, but she is sharing what she's learning along the way. With an intersectional view, she talks all things race, contemporary media, social constructs, and examining heteronormative practices. Basically she just chats, possibly gives a hot take and throws in a funny story or two...or three.
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At twenty something, Zoya definitely doesn’t know everything. In fact, sometimes it feels like she knows nothing at all, but she is sharing what she's learning along the way. With an intersectional view, she talks all things race, contemporary media, social constructs, and examining heteronormative...
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